This article argues that Germanophone literary theorists played a significant role in the formula... more This article argues that Germanophone literary theorists played a significant role in the formulation of socialist realist literary theory. It focuses on the work during the 1930s of two prominent theorists, Georgy Lukacs and his Russian associate Mikhail Lifshits, and their Moscow coterie. It discusses their role in the early 1930s in establishing Marx, Engels and Lenin's ideas about literature,
This article argues that Germanophone literary theorists played a significant role in the formula... more This article argues that Germanophone literary theorists played a significant role in the formulation of socialist realist literary theory. It focuses on the work during the 1930s of two prominent theorists, Georgy Lukacs and his Russian associate Mikhail Lifshits, and their Moscow coterie. It discusses their role in the early 1930s in establishing Marx, Engels and Lenin's ideas about literature,
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